Mystery Weekly Magazine: May 2017

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At the cutting edge of crime fiction, Mystery Weekly Magazine presents original short stories by the world’s best-known and emerging mystery writers.

The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty.

Get ready to be surprised, challenged, and entertained--whether you enjoy the style of the Golden Age of mystery , the glorious pulp digests of the early twentieth century , or contemporary masters of mystery.

In this issue:
Joe Park's Little Girl - by Nikki Dolson
A father and daughter reunite but there aren't any hugs or happy endings to be found.

The Man Who Loved Pie - by Karl El-Koura
An English professor, shot dead in his office -- a violent dispute over academic disciplines, or something more prosaic, and more sinister?

1G NETWORKS
J.A. Becker
Many years of hard work never paid off, until an aged employee begins taking his rewards by means of his own murderous hands.

LITTLE DAVID
by Charles Roland
In the six years spent looking for David Alamont, it never occurred to a wanna-be amateur sleuth retiree that he might actually find him.

THE MONTCLAIR DEAD-STAR COMEDY REVUE
by Michael Mallory
Jackie Plumm is the hottest television star of 1950, but when he turns up dead, it's up to his Buddy Barker, his comedy stooge, to find out who wanted his boss dead: the mob, the government, or one of his co-workers.

THE TATTOOED CORPSE
by Jude Roy
Two thousand dollars richer and with a dead client, John LeGrand must now find what happened.

IN WALKED A LADY
by Anna Castle
In our feature story, an Elizabethan law student under the investigative tutelage of Frances Bacon, solves a tangled riddle of a dead patriarch.

MRS. WALKER AND THE LADY IN THE LAUNDRY
by Katie Ginger
Curious old Mrs Walker investigates the death of the local barmaid when the killer dumps the body in her back garden.